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Public bus transport demand elasticities in India

Deb, Kaushik ; Filippini, Massimo

In: Journal of transport economics and policy, 2013, vol. 47, no. 3, p. 419-436

A number of static and dynamic specifications of a log-linear demand function for public transport are estimated using aggregate panel data for twenty-two Indian states over the period 1990 to 2001. In all cases, transit demand is significant and inelastic with respect to the fare. Service quality, approximated by the density of the coverage of the transport service, seems to be an important...

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Estimating welfare changes from efficient pricing in public bus transit in India

Deb, Kaushik ; Filippini, Massimo

In: Transport policy, 2011, vol. 18, no. 1, p. 23-31

Three different and feasible pricing strategies for public bus transport in India are developed in a partial equilibrium framework with the objective of improving economic efficiency and ensuring revenue adequacy, namely average cost pricing, marginal cost pricing, and two-part tariffs. These are assessed not only in terms of gains in economic efficiency, but also in changes in travel demand...

Università della Svizzera italiana

Public bus transport demand elasticities in India

Filippini, Massimo ; Deb, Kaushik

A number of static and dynamic specifications of a log linear demand function for public transport are estimated using aggregate panel data for 22 Indian states over the period 1990 to 2001. Demand has been defined as total passenger kilometers to capture actual market transactions, while the regressors include public transit fare, per capita income, service quality, and other demographic...

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Elasticities of electricity demand in urban Indian households

Filippini, Massimo ; Pachauri, Shonali

In: Energy Policy, 2004, vol. 32, no. 3, p. 429-436

In the past, several electricity demand studies have been published for India based on aggregate macro data at the country or sub-national/state level. Since the underlying theory of consumer demand is based on the behaviour of individual agents, the use of micro data, which reflects individual and household behaviour, more closely, can shed greater light on the nature of consumer responses. In...